Farming Like Crazy!

Hi,

So, as you know from last week, I have a back problem, and can't really sit down to play. Another thing, we went on vacation in Lake Tahoe for the week. But I took my laptop, and did get some downtime to play while lying on the bed, with the laptop on my belly. As you can imagine, you can't do anything significant like that, so I focused on just doing my housing plots, and some other out in the world farming.

Oh, before I forget, let me tell you about why I stopped playing on Evindra. Being in a guild has its upsides. There were nice people to talk to, and you could get help for stuff if no one responded in zone chat etc. However, always being visible online, and always seeing what people posted was a drag. Especially when people posted puerile and childish stuff in guild chat to do with 'Dog farts' etc. So, I decided, yet again, that a Guild wasn't for me, and went back to playing my Thunderfoot characters. Before I did though, I did start Tailorbrit:

Tailorbrit

So, all week, practically all I did was to farm the housing plots. Other than that, Cassy farmed a couple of things out in the world. One was Logicleak. The other was Xenocite Ore. I was tired of waiting for Meccy to get to 30 to get a Tier 3 plot, and just went and farmed it. She farmed enough to get Chewwy to Expert Weaponsmith.

I did manage to get some regular play before, and after, vacation. I decided to level Meccy to 30 and made some progress towards that goal, getting her to 26.

Meccy at 26

The thing I'm doing with her is to craft stuff for her when she hits a new level. Sometimes a new level will open up a new weapon, or new piece of armor, and with Refine Power Cores from Teccy, it's making leveling much easier.

I also decided to start doing the Crimson Badlands dailies on Cassy again. Mostly so that she continues to get Tier 5 crafting mats. I did this for the last couple of days and will continue next week. Cassy continues to make lots of plat:

Rolling in it

Here's the current state of play:

Dominion on Thunderfoot:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 15/14/14/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 26
Bags: 10/9/9/8 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Architecture Tier 5
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 26
Bags: 10/10/9/8 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Armorer Tier 4
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Weaponsmith Tier 5
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 30
Bags: 11/10/10/9 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 5 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 30
Bags: 10/10/9/9 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 5 Tailoring Tier 4

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A

Dominion on Evindra:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 24
Bags: 10/10/9/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 4 Technologist Tier 3 
Drakkybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 14
Bags: 10/8/6/5 Crafts: Survivalist 3 Architecture 1
Tailorbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 15
Bags: 10/8/7/6 Crafts: Mining 2 Tailoring 1

For Thunderfoot Dominion, I'm 182/300
For Avatus Exile, I'm 3/300
For Evindra Dominion. I'm 53/300

Next week, I plan to level Meccy to 30, then probably work on Chewwy, or maybe Teccy and Slinger, while continuing to do Dailies on Cassy.

Cheers. 

Bloggus Innerupttus!

Hi there,


Sorry about this. No real blog post this week.


A couple of things happened. I hurt my back and can't sit down to play or type, Only standing or laying down works. So, I can't really do a long blog post. The other thing is that I'm on vacation for a week 17th-24th and only have my laptop, so can't do much playing anyway.

The big news for this week is that I stopped playing on Evindra and went back to Thunderfoot. All the details in next Monday's post.


Cheers.

Tradeskill Mash-Up!!

Hi,

Well, I told you that would be the name, so I need to stick with it. But, to be honest, there were other major events this week that I'll get into later, that are really the highlight this week.

First to Tradeskills. I realized that I was doing Outfitter for nothing. None of my characters require it, so I dropped it. I moved Armorsmithing to Meccy, and put Mining on both Meccy and Chewwy. Then, I put Suvivalist on Esper, now that I had Mining covered on others, The side effect of all this was that getting Esper to 30 was no longer that important. Instead, getting Chewwy to 20 for the Tier 2 Mining Plot was now back on the table, and something I got done this week.

Now to the major news. I started playing on Evindra, and joined the Skullkickers guild. It's mostly made up of Coffee Thread forumites, so I recognize a lot in the guild. I started a Spellslinger, of course, called Cassybrit, of course :)

Evindra Cassybrit

It was fun doing the old zones again. Levian Bay and then Ellvar and Auroria. I chose Tech/Relic Hunt for Cassy, as I rather enjoyed that on Teccy. Cassy made it to 20, and some kind soul was kind enough to give me a Tier 2 Relic Plot. Thanks.

Cassy also joined in a Guild Shiphand mission to help get influence for the guild. Cassy + 3 Chua :)

Shiphand with Chua

I also started my 2nd character on Evindra. Drakkybrit. A Draken, wait for it, Spellslinger. She'll be my Arch/Survivalist. She only completed the starting zone.

Drakkybrit

Back on Thunderfoot, Cassy actually got Beloved with Northern Wastes, after doing the dailies for about 4 days. Then, she just totally stopped. Indeed, all I've been doing on my Thunderfoot characters lately is harvesting their housing plots.

So, there we have it. Massive news really. I'm not usually a Guild person, but this one just looked too much fun to pass up.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 15/14/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 26
Bags: 10/9/9/8 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Architecture Tier 5
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Armorer Tier 4
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 4 Mining Tier 3
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 30
Bags: 11/10/9/9 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 5 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 30
Bags: 10/10/9/9 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 5 Tailoring Tier 4

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A

Dominion on Evindra:

Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 20
Bags: 9/8/86 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 3 Technologist Tier 3 
Drakkybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: N/A Crafts: N/A

For Thunderfoot Dominion, I'm 179/300
For Avatus Exile, I'm 3/300
For Evindra Dominion. I'm 23/300

Well, what's the plan for next week? I think it will be to wean myself off even doing housing plots on Thunderfoot, and concentrate totally on Evindra. I'll make my 3rd character, a Mining Tailor, and level Cassy and Drakky and her.

Cheers.

Cooking is sooooo Frustrating!!

Hi,

Yep, I'll get to Cooking in a while. But first I need to tell you why I decided to level it.

I started off, as planned, getting Teccy to 30. She got to 29 in Whitevale and then just did the first few quests in Farside to get to 30. You know the plan was then to work on Slinger more, and Teccy and get them to even higher levels. Well, I decided that I'm fed up with Esper only having a Tier 2 Mineral plot, so I decided that I needed to get her to 30.

She started doing some quests in Whitevale and it was going well, until she had to do the ones where you go behind the bookcase in a camp down into a cave. There are lots of mobs and they re-spawn quite quickly. She was getting some stuff done, died, went back, died, went back, died, went back died. You get the picture. I don't remember having this trouble before, and I realize why now. Others were doing it at the same time, but no such luck now. So, I decided that she could do with a bit of a Moxie boost from food to make it easier, so I started leveling cooking on Cassy.

Because I'd sent all the herbs to Teccy, Cassy needed to farm them all again for Cooking. And here's the frustrating bit. Every single recipe other than the base ones you buy from vendors is hidden, and needs to be discovered. This is unlike Architect and Technologist, where hidden recipes are the exception, and not the norm. It sometimes takes like 10-20 tries to get a recipe unlocked for Cooking. So frustrating! Anyway, Cassy farmed herbs and got Cooking 1, farmed more herbs, and got Cooking 2 and is almost done with Cooking 3 (Where are you Glowmelon :)). She did create Moxie boost food, and sent to Esper.

Then Esper was able to complete that cave. She then went to the Hazmat Suit cave, and completed that in one run, even with no one else running it. The Moxie boosts last 30 minutes, so she had an easier time, and made it to 25 now, and is about to head to the Lopp area (no caves, thankfully :)).

Cassy has continued to do the Dailes, but got to Beloved with Crimson Badlands, so she stopped doing those. So she only does the Northern Wastes ones now. She's been accumulating tons of Galactium Ore and Starloom Cloth.

Bank

The Starloom Cloth is waiting for Slinger to get to Expert, but I haven't found anything good to do with Galactium Ore. But a thread on the forums said that crafting Lopp Hookah (vendors for just above 71s) was a good use, if you have the right Architect talents that reduce the Ore needed, and can return Ore on a successful craft. So, I concentrated on getting more Talent points for Architect on Esper, and got to Expert. I finished just this morning, and now Esper can make tons of gold with all the Galactium Ore I have.

Just wanted to let you know what's happening with CREDD prices on Thunderfoot. It's been steadily rising, since I bought my last one for 6p.

CREDD

As you can see, lowest sell is now 7p, and highest Buy is a little over 6p. As I have over 20p again on Cassy, and 4p, 3p, 3p on other characters, it's not an issue at all, but I'm just keeping an eye on it.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 15/14/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 25
Bags: 10/9/8/8 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 5
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 4 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 18
Bags: 10/7/7/6 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 4 Armorsmith Tier 4
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 30
Bags: 11/10/9/9 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 5 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 30
Bags: 10/10/9/9 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 5 Tailoring Tier 4

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A


For Dominion, I'm now 176/300. For Exile, I'm 3/300 :)

The plan for next week is to level Esper to 30 and get the Mineral Tier 3 Kit. Then, I'll work on Slinger and Teccy again. I'll continue doing the NW dailies on Cassy, but I don't know what I'll do when I get to Beloved with them. Maybe just stop doing dailes!?

Cheers. 

A Slight Change of Plans

Hi,

I decided that the goal of getting Chewwy through Auroria so that all my characters would be done with it was a bit pointless. With all the other characters, getting to 30 is important for Tier 3 Housing Plots. But with Chewwy not having any gathering tradeskill and no Plots, there really is no point. He can craft all the Armor and Weapons no matter what level he is.

So, the new plan is to level Slinger and Teccy. Get them both to 30, and then get them both to 40, and 50.

So, that's what I concentrated on this week, stopping playing Chewwy when he/she hit level 18. Slinger finished off Whitevale and even went out of her way doing Scientist missions there too. She hit Farside Bio Dome 3 to get to 30, and then I concentrated on Teccy.

She's part way into Whitevale right now, and because I'm so used to Spellslingers now, having a relatively easy time of it. She's also getting quite a few Relic nodes, so that's good too. She only made level 24, so still a bit of a way to go to 30, so that I can get the Tier 3 Relic Plot for her.

Cassy has been continuing to do the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes dailies. She's not quite Beloved with Crimson Badlands yet, and a fair way from Beloved Northern Wastes, but she'll get there eventually. From the tip from Missy about hiding the interface, Cassy features in the new banner for the blog:

New Banner

Other than all this. I'm making tons of gold. Cassy is making tons after getting Elder Gem capped doing the dailies. I'm making Refined Diamond Power Cores with Teccy and sending them to Chewwy. Chewwy makes a Fine Platinum weapon that vendors for 1g30s by spending 20s on Medium Flux. Teccy is also making money by vendoring Octopod Serum and low level ones from plants she grows in the Garden. Octopod Serum vendors for over 19s, so one craft comes to more than 95s. Slinger is just vendoring the wood from the trees, and is now getting Augmented Hardwood, as she's upgraded to the Tier 3 Thicket.

With all this gold, I bought another CREDD for 6p.

Account

I'm now all set for months.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 15/14/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 22
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 18
Bags: 10/7/7/6 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 4 Armorsmith Tier 4
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 24
Bags: 10/9/8/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 5 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 30
Bags: 10/10/9/9 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Tailoring Tier 4

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A


For Dominion, I'm now 167/300. For Exile, I'm 3/300 :)


The plan for this week is to continue with the dailies on Cassy, and level Teccy and Slinger. Also, to continue to make tons of gold gathering from all the Housing Plots.


Cheers.

Hobbled!

Hi,

That's right. I was sick for quite a bit of the week. It hit hard Monday night with chills and fever etc. and knocked me out for Tues, Weds and Thurs. I didn't play at all during that time, and only felt like playing again on Friday. So, not much progress at all this week.

On Fri, Sat, and Sun, Cassy got the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes dailies done. She hasn't hit the Elder Gems cap yet, but should tonight. Up to nearly 18p again though, so still making some good money. Quite of bit of it this week was vendoring Augmented Hardwood.

I did continue with my plan of getting everyone through Auroria. I got Esper to 22, and just started playing Chewwy again, the last to not have made it through.

In my shortened week, I just worked on Crafting a bit too. I did quite a bit with Teccy, getting into the Artisan Tech Tree, and got Technology to Tier 5. This is excellent, because now I can make tons of money with all the Tier 5 herbs that Cassy has been getting doing the dailies. Also, Teccy can now make Diamond Power Cores, which will allow all the other crafts to get through Tier 3.

Another money making scheme I have right now is crafting Sapphire Power Cores, getting Titanium from the Housing Plot, and sending those to Chewwy. With 6 Titanium, and a Refined Sapphire Power Core, you only need to buy a low Viscosity Flux to make a Fine Titanium Roomsweeper, that vendors for over 70s.

So, that's about it for this week. Just for Missy Mojo, who commented how cute Slinger was, here's another pic of her:

Slinger in shorts

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 14/13/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 22
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 3
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 22
Bags: 10/9/8/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 4 Technologist Tier 5
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 26
Bags: 10/9/9/8 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Tailoring Tier 3

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 3
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A

For Dominion, if you think of my goal to get everyone to 50, I'm currently 157/300. I'll report on this total each week too.

Next week, the plan will be to get Chewwy to 22, and continue to do dailies on Cassy. Then I plan to level Slinger and Teccy more.

Cheers.  

A Little Bit of Everything

Hi,

Yep, did a lot of stuff this week, all over the place.

First, Cassy continued to do the Crimson Badlands and Northern Wastes dailies. She made tons of gold after Elder Gem cap, and bought another CREDD for 5p75g. CREDD is hovering between 5p50g and 6p on Thunderfoot currently. I thought it might go down a bit after July 3rd, but it held steady. I'm now paid up through October 1st, and still have about 14p to play with. Cassy also actually visted Blighthaven for the first time. Here's the proof:

Blighthaven

Blighthaven is pretty fun, and it's fun getting some regular quests again other than the dailies.

Cassy didn't do anything much to the house this week, but the front of it is just getting more cluttered :)

Home

The other characters that got play time are Teccy and Slinger, other than just farming the housing plots.

I decided that Slinger should be my next 50, so I spent quite a bit of time on her, and got her well into Whitevale and up to level 26. I'm leveling Teccy also, and decided to get her through Auroria. I got her to level 21 and she should make 22 tonight. I kind of like the idea of getting all the characters done with Auroria, so I may level Esper and Chewwy next.

Every time I log on, I go farm the plots on my 5 plot characters, before doing anything else. Here's what they have currently.

Cassy - Survivalist Tier 3 plot, Garden Tier 3 plot
Esper - Festival Tier 2 plot, Mining Tier 2 plot
Meccy - Survivalist Tier 2 plot
Teccy - Relic Tier 2 plot, Garden Tier 2 plot
Slinger - Survivalist Tier 2 plot

When Slinger and Teccy get to 30, I can upgrade to Tier 3 plots for them. It was smart of Carbine to tie plot levels to real levels, or everyone would just get to level 14 and then farm farm farm.

I've also done a lot with Crafting this week. Teccy got to Journeyman Technology and I farmed some herbs for her on Cassy too. Meccy and Slinger are almost done with the Tier 2 Tech Trees, and are using the Sapphire Cores from Teccy. Chewwy is crafting stuff with the Refined cores from Teccy and making lots of gold.

Dominion on Thunderfoot:
 
Cassybrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 50
Bags: 13/13/13/13 Crafts: Mining Tier 5 Survivalist Tier 5
Esperbrit (Cassian/Esper/Settler) Level 20
Bags: 10/8/7/7 Crafts: Mining Tier 4 Architecture Tier 4
Meccybrit (Mechari/Engineer/Soldier) Level 23
Bags: 10/9/8/7 Crafts: Suvivalist Tier 3 Outfitter Tier 3
Chewwybrit (Chua/Engineer/Explorer) Level 14
Bags: 10/6/5/4 Crafts: Weaponsmith Tier 3 Armorsmith Tier 2
Teccybrit (Draken/Spellslinger/Settler) Level 21
Bags: 10/8/8/8 Crafts: Relic Hunting Tier 4 Technologist Tier 4
Slingerbrit (Cassian/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 26
Bags: 10/9/9/8 Crafts: Survivalist Tier 4 Tailoring Tier 3

Exiles on Avatus:

Bunnybrit (Aurin/Spellslinger/Scientist) Level 2
Bags: 10/0/0/0 Crafts: N/A


Next week I plan on leveling Teccy and Slinger some more. I plan on doing the dailes on Cassy, and have her finish up with Blighthaven.